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Jul. 15, 2008 at 10:55am by Greg Sterling
Google Enables Political Video Search With Speech Recognition, Showcases 3D Technology
Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise...
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Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:01pm by Greg Sterling
Google Brings Voice Search To Maps On Blackberry Mobile Phones
Today Google announced a download that enables voice search for Google Maps on Blackberry devices. This is very much like the existing Windows Live Search for Mobile service with voice or Tellme for Blackberry devices (also Microsoft). Yahoo also recently integrated Vlingo's speech technology into oneSearch....
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 8:48am by Barry Schwartz
GOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta
The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google's voice enabled search service, is now out of beta. To use GOOG-411 just dial 1-800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) and listen to the voice prompts. As part of a promotion for GOOG-411 leaving beta, Google said they will unveil which Googler is the voice behind...
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Oct. 3, 2007 at 11:20am by Danny Sullivan
Billboard Showdown: Google 411 Takes On Ask's Algorithm
I'm in the Bay Area this week, and driving down Lombard Street, I brought the car to a halt when I saw the two billboards above. Yes, that's one of the Goog411 billboards for Google Voice Search sitting on top of an Ask.com "The Algorithm" one. Sadly, there's doesn't...
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Sep. 28, 2007 at 2:01pm by Mike Blumenthal
Deconstructing Google's Billboard Experiment
Last week's coverage of Google's Goog-411 billboard in Olean brought forth a number of other sightings of the billboards in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, Ca. & Tonawanda , Buffalo and Limestone (even smaller than Olean) NY. While there may be others yet to appear and more billboards coming...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 10:22am by Greg Sterling
Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411
Photo by Mike Blumenthal. Used with permission. Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411. This is interesting and amusing for a number of reasons....
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Jul. 17, 2007 at 4:08pm by Greg Sterling
Google's Research Director Peter Norvig On 'The Future Of Search'
MIT's Technology Review published an interview with Google Director of Research Peter Norvig that explores his (and presumably Google's) thinking about problems in search and "next-generation" search functionality that Google is working on. There's nothing strikingly new in the interview but it's an interesting overview and window into some of...
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Jul. 2, 2007 at 9:30am by Greg Sterling
Google Voice Search Adds 'Map It' Feature
Google's free directory assistance/voice search offering 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) has added a "map it" feature. Users can say "map it" after receiving the desired listing and get a text message with a link to a map (which opens a WAP browser). I tested the feature a couple of times , and...
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May. 24, 2007 at 11:18am by Greg Sterling
Goog411 Raising Profile, Seeking Feedback
The Google Lat Long Blog promotes Google's free voice-based local search (free directory assistance) product: Goog411. The post also cites a new, related Google Group, similar to the Yahoo Suggestions Board, and a related, suggestions email address. Here's our original post on Goog411 from launch earlier this year. Google was...
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Apr. 16, 2007 at 5:36am by Greg Sterling
Goog411 Voice Search And Speech Recognition
Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post that went up last Friday on Google's potential motivation in rolling out Goog411. The obvious answer to the question "Why is Google doing this?" is mobile voice search and directory assistance ($13 billion in annual revenue per Opus Research). The conventional wisdom, which includes...
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Apr. 6, 2007 at 3:42pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Voice Local Search Launched
You've heard the rumors. Now you can try the experimental service from Google Labs. Google Voice Local Search is now live and publicly claimed by Google. Greg Sterling will be along to say more either here or in a fresh post. In the meantime, you can call (1-800-GOOG-411) and...
